Grand Rounds

By purepedantry on July 4, 2006.

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Grand Rounds on the Fourth of July

A special Fourth of July edition of Grand Rounds has been posted at RangelMD. This time around, given the holiday, Dr. Rangel has arranged the posts as a theme, namely a focus on the problems in the U.S. health care system and suggestions of ways to fix them. There's a lot of good analysis to…

Carnival barking

Three blog carnivals to hawk today: 1. The History Carnival 2. RINO Sightings (May Day Show Trial Edition) 3. Grand Rounds has been delayed. It was supposed to show up at Polite Dissent, but when I checked out his site to look for it this morning, his blog was gone and a site advertising cheap…

Accepting Submissions for Grand Rounds

Hi everyone. Grand Rounds is up at Chronic Babe. Grand Rounds is being hosted here next week on Tuesday. The theme will be Oscars-related, but I won't be giving preference to any particular type of medical piece. Just send me your very best stuff. To submit, please send me an email with your…

Carnivals!

Today's Tangled Bank has just gone up over at The Voltage Gate; this week's Grand Rounds is up at vitum medicinus, and Pediatric Grand Rounds can be found over at Parenting Solved.

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